DARE- Day One Alliance for Employment

EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment

The Funding Mechanism Office (FMO) for EEA and Norway Grants has awarded for funding the project “DARE– DayOneAlliance forEmployment” submitted by the organisation SEAL CYPRUS. The award is a big success for Cyprus given that the number of concept notes submitted reached 303. Of those, 49 passed the first round of assessment. Only 27 proposals passed the second round of evaluation and were finally approved for funding.

About the project

“DARE– DayOneAlliance forEmployment” is expected to contribute towards the specific objective of the Fund “strengthening transnational cooperation to address European challenges in the area of youth employment”.

Target groups

The target groups are:

(a) Young people Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) in Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Portugal. The target group includes long-term unemployed, discouraged people who have stopped looking for work, inactive women caring for children or incapacitated adults, ethnic minorities including Roma, asylum-seekers, the low-skilled, people with mental health issues and people with disability.

(b) Employees who wish to endorse the Open Badges system for the validation of non-formal learning.

Partners and roles within the consortium

SEAL CYPRUS is leading a consortium of ten organisations from eight countries. Five partners will implement interventions in favour of unemployed people in four countries:

Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Portugal face challenges in the areas of career planning, entrepreneurship education, and validation of learning. The experience of other European counties revealed that initiatives that improve the above areas increase the opportunities of employment for the youth.

The proposed interventions entail Job Labs and Entrepreneurship Labs for 1.400 young people not in education, employment, or training. A system of validation with the Open Badges system will be put in action in favour of the participants.

Five partners will transfer know-how in career planning, entrepreneurship education, and validation of non-formal learning from four countries: